A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15)
Pigeon farming require less labor and low investment. Pigeon can be raised easily in the home yard and roof of the house. Pigeons are domestic birds and easy to handle, from six month of age they start laying eggs and produce two baby pigeon per month on an average.
As a livestock there are most popular in Asia, Northern Africa and the Middle East, less so in Europe and the FAO didn’t record any in the Americas or Oceania.
